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Our 10/22 issue is now online, with @gavinfranc on musclemen, @carolinefraser on hobos, Ben Tarnoff on AI oligarchs, Alan Hollinghurst on Peter Hujar, @aucoincomposer on Philip Glass, Catherine Nicholson on ye olde VDs, a poem by Ben Lerner, and much more. go.nybooks.com/4yJ283z
Next Wednesday, join Daniel Mendelsohn (@DAMendelsohnNYC) for a three-part seminar on unrequited love in #JaneAusten’s Persuasion. Sign up at: go.nybooks.com/47FE9WY
In his photography, Edward Burtynsky “seems to be recording the sheer size” of twentieth-century industrial work, “an effort to simply chronicle what mankind at this moment was doing.” —@billmckibben go.nybooks.com/3UQ0AWw
“Without George Sand, there would be no Jane Eyre, no Adam Bede, no Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” —Kathryn Hughes go.nybooks.com/3Wdxroy
“Conversation is our best tool of seduction. Computers did not arrive at a conversational style on their own.” —@JamesGleick go.nybooks.com/4B68vzv
Claire-Louise Bennett’s novels “capture the experience of consciousness more acutely than practically any other contemporary writer.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn go.nybooks.com/3Ur7XDH
“Multinational corporations...vex the [novel] form,” Daisy Hildyard writes. “Taking them seriously...might alter our understanding of what a nation is and how people relate to another in it. It would also be a practical nightmare for the novelist.” go.nybooks.com/3UIrvDE
Jonathan Guyer (@mideastXmidwest) on how the Blob went MAGA go.nybooks.com/4BvTmri
Today at 1:00 PM EDT join Ben Rhodes (@brhodes), Astra Taylor (@astradisastra), and Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) for the first of a two-part online series on the midterm elections. Registration is pay-what-you-wish and open to the public. go.nybooks.com/47Kg2GD
The New York Review of Books retweeted
Is the foreign policy establishment adopting MAGA’s worldview, or is Trump adopting the Blob’s?
At CFR in March, Sebastian Gorka called a New York Times reporter "some piece of human filth." He told a Harvard Law lecturer asking about war powers, "Who's the commander in chief?" On blowback from Iran, he said you’d have to be smoking Hunter Biden’s crack pipe to worry. The moderator moved on each time.
I wrote about Trump’s Blob for @nybooks:
“It took the deaths of three of their own to shock the Weather Underground into realizing just what a bomb could do. Ironically, the townhouse accident garnered far more publicity than any of the group’s subsequent bombings.” —Adam Hochschild go.nybooks.com/4smCj6M
“Given the number of Black voters in Mississippi, it will not be easy for the Republican state legislators to gerrymander every one of their districts into oblivion, but the party is clearly going to try.” —Jeffrey Toobin go.nybooks.com/47ZWFJE
“Trump’s maximally permissive attitude toward the Saudis revealed a deeper truth...US policymakers have never put concern for real Yemenis at the center of their decision-making.” —Nicolas Niarchos go.nybooks.com/4k0XrNK
“The threat of deportation,” writes Alice Driver, “makes undocumented minors in the workforce more afraid than ever to report abuses.” go.nybooks.com/4yMnEUS
María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela. In January, a month after she went into exile, @willieneuman wrote about the opposition leader and her efforts to overthrow the Chavista power structure.
“Machado is nothing if not persistent. Having been counted out before, she nevertheless emerged as the undisputed leader of an opposition that had once largely disdained her.” nybooks.com/online/2026/01/1…
Next Wednesday, join Daniel Mendelsohn (@DAMendelsohnNYC) for a three-part seminar on unrequited love in #JaneAusten’s Persuasion. Sign up at: go.nybooks.com/47FE9WY
“Wallace Shawn’s characters have become more and more adept—stunningly casual in their ability to make explicit what is usually never explicit, with an unbearable clarity about hidden motives.” —Adam Thirlwell go.nybooks.com/48ar5cd
The New York Review of Books retweeted
Fans of #JaneAusten! We’ll be starting our three-session @nybooks online seminar on “Persuasion” next Wednesday evening, 4 November. Come join us as we colored this latest entry into our seminar series on love gone sideways….info below:
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Amur tigers are “so elusive that even humans living in their territory may go all their lives without glimpsing more than a trail of pugmarks in the snow.” —Colin Thubron go.nybooks.com/4zQeV3Z
“When it comes down to it,” Silicon Valley has “always been motivated by the desire to amass as much money as possible; democracy is just an impediment.” —Sue Halpern go.nybooks.com/4Bl9vzG
